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Thank you for taking care of the often ignored goose. Every day we have a great deal of goose aerial activity here and our parakeets are acutely aware of and in touch with the geese out their window. Great pictures. It was also fun (and educational) looking up the words I didn't know. Curtis

How good to see that Romeo and Mercutio are still at it, going toe to to with such great photos -- As Feste says, "A sentence is but a chev'ril glove to a good wit. How quickly the wrong side may be turned outward."

I've wondered myself whether in this exchange of thinly-veiled insults, "stretching" might not have been double-entendre-intended, as per the contemporary usage, to mean "suspending", a form of second-hand masturbation performed for hire, by use of a sort of ingenious string-tie-and-plumb-bob device.

Byron, in insulting Keats for "frigging his imagination", uses the figure of "suspension" in the third letter-excerpt here.

It's that old saw about the many mansions. The manor and the other side of the tracks.

What you call the placard was a 48" x 36" sheet (verso of recycled architectural plan!) on which I inscribed by hand everything you see there.

This was one of several dozen such sheets I used in teaching that class, every two years, all through the lost years of my lost life as a devoted home school teacher of poetry.

The students were not geniuses so I thought the cartoon method might help direct attention to the subject matter, that is, the poetry of the past. Students, I found, generally regard the poetry of the past as pretty boring stuff.

There are about seven of those "Deep Keats Scrolls" posted at the same time that one was. If you check the side links for that month, on the same page, you'll see them.

It was originally possible to click on the images and see the details in the Scrolls up close. Then it seems there came a sea-change, one of those "new, improved" Google developments. Now when I click on the images, they don't get big any more. Someone told me a while back they can still be enlarged by "left-clicking". However I had (and have) no idea what "left-clicking" is.

Since my latest brilliant fall in the street a week ago I'm having a hard enough time convincing my helpful little mouse to click at all!

(I did such sheets for Thomas Wyatt, Ben Jonson, Ezra Pound... in fact for many of those Dead Poets whom, once upon a time, some students, at least, did regard as interesting curiosities provided the project was sufficiently simplified -- "cartoonized".)

Tom, many thanks for the explanation - I thought you, or someone you knew, might have done them. I can see why you would attempt this approach. Another angle into another world, perhaps one more appealing to the "contemporary" sensibility, at least back then. I look forward to going back and looking through the other cards.

I think of the many angles to look at the morning-glory ...

You mentioned your fall once before recently and I assumed it was your past fall. I am so sorry to hear of this more recent incident. I do hope you will heal up well and that pain is minimized.

Thanks, Don. Yes, another street fall, blind man's buff again, trip on unlit downtown curb in dark, a week ago, embarrassing -- no fractures this time, but still trying to heal up from the scrapes and bruises.

This time a kindly young person at least stopped to offer solace. "Are you okay?" "Well..."

At least Lord Byron was not on hand to witness this latest humiliation.